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Yale French Studies, Number 121: Literature and History: Around "Suite Française" and "Les Bienveillantes"

Richard J. Golsan

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Irène Némirovsky's Suite Française and Jonathan Littell's Les Bienveillantes constitute the two most important literary publishing events in France in the new millennium. Both novels have enjoyed enormous commercial and critical success, and both have generated considerable controversy among literary critics and historians.
In this volume of Yale French Studies, leading scholars in the fields of literary studies and history reflect upon the significance of these two works and attempt to answer some of the questions that they raise about the ways in which literary fiction organizes our understanding of the past and our perception of the world.

Language: French

Pages: 272

Format: Paperback

Publisher: Yale University Press

Release: July 31, 2012

ISBN: 0300184778

ISBN 13: 9780300184778

Yale French Studies, Number 121: Literature and History: Around "Suite Française" and "Les Bienveillantes"

Richard J. Golsan

0/5 ( ratings)

Irène Némirovsky's Suite Française and Jonathan Littell's Les Bienveillantes constitute the two most important literary publishing events in France in the new millennium. Both novels have enjoyed enormous commercial and critical success, and both have generated considerable controversy among literary critics and historians.
In this volume of Yale French Studies, leading scholars in the fields of literary studies and history reflect upon the significance of these two works and attempt to answer some of the questions that they raise about the ways in which literary fiction organizes our understanding of the past and our perception of the world.

Language: French

Pages: 272

Format: Paperback

Publisher: Yale University Press

Release: July 31, 2012

ISBN: 0300184778

ISBN 13: 9780300184778

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